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This "WEBSMITHING" page contains a list of 162 links to websites relating to
DESIGNING & AUTHORING, EDITING PROGRAMS, HOSTING SITES,
TESTING PROGRAMS, and UPLOADING.
Thanks to TBA of the DPCUC, this page was last reported as checked for full accuracy on November 17, 2011.
Anne's World Web Page Resources
The undisputed reference leader in website production.
ASP = Application Service Provider.
Everything you need to build great websites.
Bravenet: Free Web Tools and Developer Resources
Cascading Style Sheets - Level One
Cascading Style Sheets Resources
This class is intended for anyone who knows HTML, but doesn't know Perl or CGI programming (and maybe doesn't know any programming at all). The goal here is to introduce you to writing Perl CGI scripts, teach you the basics of writing CGI's, and walk you through several examples of common CGI programming applications for the Web.
4337 CGI resources listed in 338 categories.
Courtesy of Educator.com, with Brenton Strine who teaches Educator's HTML courses utilizing his web development skills honed since the 1990's.
Crunch and Resize .JPG image files. Choose your image then CRUNCH and RESIZE it.
Dr. Mark A. Foster's Guide to General Web Site Design
Stop Email harvesters from picking up Email addresses from your web pages with this free e-mail address encoder (hexadecimal converter).
Free downloads, support, tutorials. Our WebDB distribution files are now Zipped for your convenience.
Free Programmers' Resources, Free Webmasters' Resources, Free Internet Software, Free Online Documentation.
A free online tool for generating custom webpage graphics and animations.
The largest free-/shareware font archive on the net.
Freebyte's Guide to...Free Graphics Software
Quite an extensive list of downloadable fonts.
FREE Search Engine Optimization Secrets
- from WebPagePublicity.com
Free Webmaster Tools & Resources
This is the top level entry point for the WebCom HTML Guide. Topics covered include commonly used tags (with examples, and code used to produce them), as well as stylistic and technical issues.
Web design tools for the rest of us.
Our goal is to provide the most helpful and complete guide to creating web pages anywhere through these tutorials, forums, and lists of resources.
Resources for web developers.
If you know nothing about HTML, this is where you start. These tutorials are set up so you can move through them over a week's time. One tutorial per day. However, if you can go faster, do it! Some have told me that they finished the primers in a day.
Internet & Web Design Tutorials - Training Videos
You can write a web page and put it onto a host computer so people can view it from anywhere in the world.
Try, purchase and download complete font families.
Offering free CGI scripts to the web community.
Here you'll find all sorts of HTML, Javascript and web authoring tutorials, from absolute beginner stuff to more advanced material.
Response-O-Matic Free Form Processor
Adds forms to your web site with no programming.
Shareware Software Download Sites
Everything you need to make a web site is included.
Full Web Building Tutorials - All Free.....At W3Schools you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP.
A website designers' one-stop resource.
Web Developer's Virtual Library
Discussion forums, software reviews, top100, tutorials, contents, jobs, discussion lists.
Here are many free resources that offer useful web site features and site enhancements.
Taming the electronic page with this monthly newsletter.
WebReference.com: Dev the Web™
Web tools made easy.
Web Tutorials & desgn Resources 
Leading the Web to its full potential...
Image Libraries from Library Spot
Images Search Engine from Google
National Geographic Photographic
The New York Public Library Digital Image Collection
Host and share your photos on the Internet. Get started by viewing some of the millions of photos uploaded by our users.
Maybe you do not have time to fully understand how to develop a website, but you would be willing to have someone else do it for you. Nevertheless, knowing something about the process certainly would assist you and your designers in making the process easier. Here are a couple of websites to help you make the decision
Professional Web Designers - Resources
from About.com.
Professional Web Designers Services - Web Site Design Buyer's Guide
from BuyerZone.com.
Bringing your past into focus. We all have stories to tell about days-gone-by. This particular website is a forum to post observations about the "old days". But it might provide you an idea as to how your website could be used for genealogical purposes.
BBEdit from Bare Bones Software Inc.
A free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website.
A complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing. KompoZer is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding.
Macromedia "Homesite" from Adobe
A leading-edge text and HTML editor. Winner of software industry awards since 1998, this application does it all: it easily handles a stack of huge files; lets you format text to your heart's content; does system-wide searches, and multi-line global replacements. It even corrects your spelling mistakes.
A software product that makes it easy for people of all experience levels to create and maintain a great website. It reins-in the hard parts of building a website and presents them in a way that the non-geek can understand and control.
An easy-to-use web page editor that allows you to create and upload web pages in minutes without knowing HTML.
The fast, easy and free way to create webpages.
An easy template based solution that gives you total page design freedom, no HTML skills required.
Portable Document Format (PDF) is the de facto standard for the secure and reliable distribution and exchange of electronic documents and forms around the world. CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version of commercial PDF creation software.
Various PDF-related websites.
Free PDF Writer and tools.
Signup for your own free web site and enjoy 50 megs of space to build your own quality site on the internet.
Our site is targeted mainly to self-employed individuals and small companies on a budget which aren't going to pay inflated prices for webhosting, and to those who want to compensate hosting expenses with the help of a referral/reseller program.
A major free Web space provider that has 5 million members and is owned by search portal Lycos.
Unlike the other free hosting guys out there, bootbox.net does not make you place our banners or advertising on your web site. That is not the professional image we know that you want to project. We also don't force you to have a domain such as....
http://www.freehostingcompany.com/websites/~yoursite.
That looks even worse! At bootbox.net we give you what the competition charges huge amounts of money for.
Just sign up with Cybertown (it's free to register) and you'll get your own customizable virtual reality home, complete with personal chat, a message board and more goodies.
Create your own online community in less than two minutes--FOR FREE!
The leading "Cost-Free, Banner Free" web-hosting network for businesses and individuals.
Stake your claim at this major free Web space provider that uses a city theme.
Here is the largest list of free homepage providers that you wouldn't ever find anywhere else besides here.
Reviews, ratings, and more.
Free Web Space at StormLoader.com
from TheFreeSite.com. We list services that will give you FREE Web pages. In some cases, these services will help you publish a Web site even if you have no experience in writing HTML.
FreeYellow will host your website for free. You'll get 12Mb of disk space with no limits on bandwidth and no setup fees.
We understand that our customers' web sites are important and that they need to be able to count on us to ensure that their service is not interrupted. We have established a solid foundation to offer a hosting solution for small-to-medium sized businesses that is reliable, easy-to-use, and customer service-oriented, all for a low cost.
Bruce tells what to look for with free hosting. He also reviews and recommends places which allow the use of CGI scripts.
At MyDomain we make domain maintenance easy with our convenient, one-stop, web-managed Member Area. You don't need extra software, hardware, or expertise, either on your own part or from expensive hired guns.
With your free family Website at MyFamily.com, you can post family photos, share exciting family news, upload your family tree, chat and much more.
Hosting and web design.
Compares the Top 10 Web Hosts.
Making the Web Hosting Choice Easy!
Why build and host your FREE site on Tripod? Our tools and member spotlights bring you traffic and cash!
The fastest growing free business hosting service on the web.
A free research guide to help users choose the right web host for their personal or business website.
Courtesy of "About.com". You can create your own personal Web page or photo album for free or at a low cost from these places. Some of these hosting sites cater to specialty sites such as families, kids and games.
Grow your business with a web site from Yahoo!
A hosting directory site that currently lists and reviews 5,800+ web hosting plans.
Intended for HTML documents optimizing, resulting in shorter downloading / uploading time.
A free service to analyze your web page on the Internet. You give it the URL of your page and Watson will get a copy of it directly from the web server. Watson can also check out many other aspects of your site, including link validity, download speed, search engine compatibility, and link popularity.
Gómez Research and Advisory Services
Give Your Site a Tune Up! Find problems before your visitors do!
Website (Web Application) Testing
Web Site Test Tools & Site Management Tools
Do you, your clients, or employees need an easy-to-use, convenient, secure way to transfer files over the Internet? FilesToGo.com is a web-based system designed specifically for this purpose.
Home of the most popular FTP programs available, the WS_FTP (for Windows).
SecureFTP Server and CuteFTP (for Windows)
Stairways Software (for the MAC)
Secure file-sharing systems for businesses.
A freeware SCP (Secure CoPy) client for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP using SSH (Secure SHell). Its main function is safe copying of files between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this basic function, WinSCP manages some other actions with files.
The compilers of this list have tried to include local area (Durham Region, Ontario) and other Canadian websites, but not exclusively. We welcome any suggestions concerning related websites: please send your list to TBA, including the sites' titles, the sites' URLs, and your recommendations for categories/subcategories.
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